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Patented Mar. |81, |902.

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UNITED STATES PAIENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK LAMBERT LORDEN, OF WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND.

MACHINE FOR CUTTlNc TOBACCO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,571, dated March 18, 1902.

Application led July 15, 1901.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK LAMBERT LORDEN, draftsman, of Wellington, New Zealand, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Cutting Tobacco; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of lthe same.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and effective machine wherewith caketobacco maybe rapidly cut into slices of even thickness.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my tobacco-cutter, though I do not confine myself to the precise details shown thereon.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the back of the cutter. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same with the receiving-box removed. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same with the receiving-box in section. Fig. '4 is a side view of the receiving-box. Fig. 5 is a View of the lug. Fig. 6 is a section of the cramp on line A A, Fig. 3.

Similar figures of reference indicate similar parts.

My machine comprises a disk l, mounted revolubly on `the pin or stud 2, which is screwed into the bracket 3 and locked by the nut2. 4 represents knives secured to the disk 1 by the wing-nuts 5 upon the sloping faces 6, formed on the disk. The front of the knives pass through slots 7 in the disk and their-cutting edges 8 project beyond the face of the disk. The handle 9 is securedy to or made solid with the disk, and the receiving-box 10 is secured to the disk by a spring-catch 11, having a point 112, taking into an Aindentation formed in the periphery of the disk, or it is secured by bayonet-joints 12, Fig. 4, in which case studs 13 are xed in the disk and project from its periphery, or by screws 14 passing through the holes 15 and taking into holes 16 in the lugs 17, formed on the disk. In this latter case I hinge the back of the box by a hinge 18 and provide a fastening 19. When the spring 1l is used, I hinge the box by a hinge 20 to the handle 9 or other con'- venient part, and I cut awaya portion of the rim of the box nearthe joint, as shown byA the dotted lines on Fig..3, to allow the `box to close upon the disk.

21 is a loop or its equivalent attached to the head of the pin 2, whereby the said pin may troducing a fresh cake behind the same.

Serial No. 68,418. (No model.)

be held from turning while locking it with the wing-nut 21. By screwing the pin 2 into the bracket 3 the disk can be adjusted with the greatest accuracy to revolve without play, and it is then firmly secured by lthe nut 2a.

The upper part of the bracket 3 is provided f knives and against the lower part during the downward stroke y'of the knives. The lower part of the bracket is formed into a cramp 4qand has the screw 26 sloped, as shown, to give room for turning the head 27 when it is desired to attach the machine to a table or the like, which has a rail 28 near the edge of the table. ordinary way upon the end of the screw, but I make the back of the same with a iiat side, as shown on Fig. 6, and thisvat side bearing upon the face of the bracket prevents the washer from turning around. The washer is thus always in its right position for approaching the table. The machine may be further secured by screws 4l when it is desired to x the same permanently.

At the back of the knives turned up, as shown on Fig. 3, so that they can be securely held in the fingers while adjusting the knives in position on the faces 6, for which purpose slots 31 aremade in the knives. n

To operate the machine, the upper part 23 of the mouthpiece is adjusted to allow the The bevel-washer 29 is pivoted in the the edges 30 are y cake of tobacco 32 to enter freely. The disk,

lwith its box 1 0, is turned by the handle 9, while the tobacco is pressed through the mouthpiece by the fingers of vthe operator. The inal piece of the cake is cut up by in- As the tobacco is cut it falls into the box 10,

wherefrom it may be removed by taking the box off the disk, in case the bayonet-joints or the screws are used, or by throwing the box back, as shown by dotted lines on Fig. 3, when the hinge 20 is employed.

By placing the mouthpiece 22 centrally iu relation to the disk I am enabled to use a disk IOO of small diameter, with the knives near the center of the disk, which arrangement results in aconsequent reduction of power necessary for cutting the tobacco. i

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is- In a tobaccocutter, the combination of a lo disk having knives, a handle secured to the i disk, a box hinged to the handle and a springcatch for holding the box to the disk substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FREDERICK LAMBERT. LORDEN. lVitncsses:

E. S. BALDWIN, STANLEY W. JONES. 

